{
  "place_id": "horishni-plavni#7722_11869",
  "wikidata": "Q998227",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Горішні Плавні",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Horishni Plavni",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019. This spelling also coincides with BGN/PCGN 1965 and ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Komsomolsk",
          "why": "Former Soviet city name, replaced in 2016 during decommunization."
        },
        {
          "name": "Komsomolsk-on-Dnieper",
          "why": "English disambiguating expansion of the former name; not the current official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gorìšnì Plavnì",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Горішні Плавні",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Horichni Plavni",
      "why": "French transcription uses ch for Ukrainian ш; attested in French geographical references.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Horishni Plavni",
          "why": "Same official Latin form as in English; French texts may retain it instead of transcribing sh as ch."
        },
        {
          "name": "Komsomolsk",
          "why": "Former name used in French references before the 2016 renaming."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Horishni Plavni is a mining and industrial city in Poltava Oblast, near the Dnipro and Kremenchuk. Large iron-ore workings and pellet production shaped its planned urban development.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Renamed from Komsomolsk in 2016. The modern planned city should not be confused with each of the older villages whose names inform its new name.",
  "rank": 212,
  "slug": "horishni-plavni"
}